This year, we have demonstrated a deep commitment to public engagement, bridging academic research with advocacy, media, and policy influence. Read about this and more on our annual report here ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Our team are taking a break from publishing this month. Many thanks to all our contributors and readers – we look forward to returning in September! Check out our annual report to see what we've been up to this year ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

We've had a busy year! Find out what we've been up to in our annual report. 📚👇 Thank you to all our members, collaborators, supporters and followers, for continuing to show up for each other and bringing in renewed strength and commitment to critical scholarship. blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Militarigration constitutes a stage of securitisation of migration, specific to the eastern EU border, effectively merging border security and national defence. Read the blog post by Witold Klaus and Magdalena Kmak here ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Spain's regularisation was made possible by the joyful and creative mobilisation of migrant women. By foregrounding care, they helped secure legal status for the most vulnerable. Read today's blog post by Lauren Couraut ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Sunjay Gookooluk’s testimony reveals grave institutional violence in Rome's Ponte Galeria detention centre – demonstrating that closing the facility is a compelling legal and human rights imperative. Ludovica Grassi reviews his new book ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Over 25 young people have been forcibly removed to France as part of the UK's 'one in one out', despite flawed age assessments. Research from @jrsuk.bsky.social and @humansforrights.bsky.social show the scheme is putting children at risk. Read today's blog post ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

The Conversation Continues: Day 2 at CINETS 2026 The morning opened with the keynote session Violence, Resistance, and the Limits of Law in Crimmigration Regimes, featuring Gil Rothschild Elyassi, Jasmin Lilian Diab and Tendai John Mutambu.

CINETS 2026 opened at the Wereldmuseum Leiden yesterday, hosted by the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance, and Society, Leiden Law School, @leidenlaw.bsky.social, Leiden University @unileiden.bsky.social and @bordercrim.bsky.social Border Criminologies, running from 5 to 7 July.

A week in limbo showed this author a form of border control that operates through ambiguity, opacity, and self-policing. Read today's blog post by Rameen Naseem ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

A report has commended Derwentside detention centre for its ‘good’ outcomes – but no matter how much carceral spaces are ‘improved’ via reform, they still produce harm. Read today's blog post by Renzo Szkwarok ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Marginalised communities living on India's riverine borderlands have been disproportionately impacted by a mass deletion of ‘doubtful’ voters – leaving some vulnerable to deportation. Read our latest blog post by Panchali Ray ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Congratulations to the winners of this year's masters dissertation prize! 🎉 Giovanna da Custódia won with a thesis on the use of AI-powered surveillance tech in US immigration, and Simone Schwab was runner up with a thesis on criminalised boat drivers in Samos. www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

Recent invocation of a post-partition expulsion law reveals the hollowness of procedural protections in India’s citizenship regime. Read today's blog post by Vibha Swaminatha ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

When does care become control? ⛓️‍💥 Can we imagine more just modes of care? It was a pleasure to meet last month & hear about ever-valuable work across the network! Thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social and @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social for the support & everyone who came & shared insights & experiences.

Between territories and hostile systems, survivors and crew on a rescue boat imagine radical alternatives through care. Read the latest blog post by Melissa Pawson ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

A woman’s body found at sea is part of a decade of evidence of structural exposure to death, maintained by state policies in the Central Med. From @msdionis.bsky.social @sosmediterranee.org today ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Powerful stories from participants with experience of immigration detention in police custody this week with @aviddetention.bsky.social. People selected items to tell their stories– A clock: "I lost so much time." Wool: "I couldn't find the end of the thread." A dog: "they treated us like dogs."

📆 This Tuesday! Join the launch of Detention & Deportation in Europe. Spanning carceral border regimes & interspersed with poetic reflections, the book is a radical critique of detention and deportation systems. @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

People’s rights get compromised when systems prioritise cost-saving and efficiency – the WFP-Palantir data breach is the latest example of that. But co-created tech can help migrants flourish instead. Read part 2 of tech in ATD by @svaroschi.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

A new report reveals how ATD programmes are often simply another form of detention – and how tech can be used to promote rights instead. From @svaroschi.bsky.social today ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

📆 Join us on 9 June for the launch of Detention & Deportation in Europe. Spanning carceral border regimes & interspersed with poetic reflections, the book is a radical critique of detention and deportation systems. @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Up to half a million migrants can apply for permits after Spain passed a landmark amendment. But it's not the first regularisation move – and critics say the policy doesn't go far enough. Read the new blog post by @ainoacabada.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

UPDATE: images published by #DetentionLandscapes reveal shocking conditions in Sintiki camp, Greece. Detainees have protested long detentions and degrading conditions for months. @mobileinfoteam.bsky.social @borderviolence.bsky.social @andrianifili.bsky.social www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

The Bibby Stockholm barge has an unlikely legacy – one that has often gone unseen. This is a legacy of solidarity and community, formed in Dorset by the people living on the barge and in the surrounding community. Read the latest blog post by Georgie Holmes ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Amongst many brilliant panels at our #BorderedCare workshop: a sobering presentation on the lived impacts of the Afghan data breach, which had devastating consequences inc killings. @reflegalsupport.bsky.social @vcanning.bsky.social @sara-de-jong.bsky.social refugeelegalsupport.org/publications...

The demand on doctors to declare a person 'fit' for immigration detention in Italy reveals a clinical paradox at the heart of the border regime. Read the latest blog post, on resisting the pathogenicity of immigration detention ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Chiekh Sene & Deanna Dadusc on storytelling criminalisation of migration: resisting borders, prison & colonial legacies. “Boat drivers saved their own lives and other people’s lives too… When invited to speak on borders we’re always asked for testimonies of violence and never as political subjects.”

Next, Julia Van Dessel presented on Europol, Meta and the moderation of smuggling related content. She discussed how social media moderation policies often dress control up as ‘care’, and how several monitoring projects (run by UNHCR, EASO and Frontex) have been found to have no legal basis.

Our last panel for the day is Practicing care and resistance in counter-smuggling and facilitation research. Leonie Jegen presents on the politics of care in research on border externalisation: “throughout the fieldwork, my expectations of conflict and care did not always hold up.”